egranthm@amyerg.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) (08/26/88)
Was wondering if anyone could point me toward some cheap hard disks
for a 3B2/300. I've been told by my VAR that a 72 meg replacement
for my 30 meg drive would cost $1500, while I see drives in the
magazines with the ESDI interface for 150 megs at this price. Any way
to get a 60 or 70 meg ESDI drive to replace my internal one for
about $600-$700?
Thanks,
Ewan Grantham
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Go Broncos!!! adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) (08/30/88)
In article <301@amyerg.UUCP> egranthm@amyerg.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes:
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:^< Was wondering if anyone could point me toward some cheap hard disks
:^< for a 3B2/300. I've been told by my VAR that a 72 meg replacement
:^< for my 30 meg drive would cost $1500, while I see drives in the
:^< magazines with the ESDI interface for 150 megs at this price. Any
:^< way to get a 60 or 70 meg ESDI drive to replace my internal one for
:^< about $600-$700?
ANY ST412/506 drive will plug 'n play, if you can figure out how to
format it (yes, even the 190Mb ones ;^>). CDC makes the OEM drives.
for an ESDI drive, you'll have to get the SCSI card from your VAR,
then a SCSI-to-ESDI interface thingamjig...
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mvuxq.att.com!adh +------------------------------------------------------+friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (08/31/88)
In article <301@amyerg.UUCP> egranthm@amyerg.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes: > > Was wondering if anyone could point me toward some cheap hard disks > for a 3B2/300. I've been told by my VAR that a 72 meg replacement > for my 30 meg drive would cost $1500, while I see drives in the > magazines with the ESDI interface for 150 megs at this price. Any > way to get a 60 or 70 meg ESDI drive to replace my internal one for > about $600-$700? Anybody can format their own 3B2 300/310/400 drives with the AT&T 3B2 Computer Maintenance Utilities. This is comcode 305-395 (about $40), and available from the AT&T Customer Information Center at +1 800 432 6600 (+1 317 352 8556 elsewhere). This book has the `idtools' (formerly `devtools') floppy that lets one work magic. *Everybody* should have this manual. Being able to repair your sanity track just one time will save you many times the cost of the manual. In article <340@anumb.UUCP>, adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes: > > ANY ST412/506 drive will plug 'n play, if you can figure out how to > format it (yes, even the 190Mb ones ;^>). CDC makes the OEM drives. We have heard from a plausible source that the idtools will not format a drive larger than about 72mb. Word has is that Congruent Technologies (they sell a 170MB drive) wrote their own idtools to do this. We have not tried this -- anybody else done it? CDC drives are nice but expensive. We hear that Micropolis drives work well: fast, high-quality, and inexpensive. We have formatted CDC drives but not tried the Micropolis drives yet. Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl ------------Nancy Reagan on the UNIX-PC: "Just say slow"-----------